RS> If you want to make your code more portable use the fgets.
 RS> Of course, C code like this is off topic and should be discussed  in
 RS> the C echo.
I hope that in ruling on the topicality the moderator bears in mind that 
fgets() is a function in the Standard C++ library, defined (albeit by 
reference to ISO IEC 9899) in section 27.8.2 of the C++ Standard.
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